My very first dog was a stray old one. I spent my childhood with Max and I loved him from the bottom of my heart. I was playing with his fluffy tangled fur (it was indeed a huge jungle) to the despair of my mum that was keen on hygiene. She even scolded me for some times because of doing this during lunch and she told to me that this was a lack of respect to God (she was a religious woman). Max was a quiet dog. Perhaps this is the reason why he became our family's favourite one. I suffered a lot after he died and had to move to another dog.
(Translated by Luciana-Maria Buruiană / University of Bucharest, Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, MTTLC, year I / Corrected by Silvia Petrescu, coordinator of the translations)Real Fiction is a collective project started in 2013 by Florin Piersic Jr. The concept of Real Fiction continued to exist as a Facebook group, after a volume of stories was published at Humanitas Publishing House. (In May 2022, the group has 8,350 members.) The authors write ultra-short stories, with the texts limited to 500 characters (in Romanian, so the length of the English translation might be a little different) - a flash-fiction exercise on a topic that changes every few days. The group's coordinators are Florin Piersic Jr., Gabriel Molnar, Răzvan Penescu, and Luchian Abel. (Drawing by Adrian T. Roman)
Versiunea în română a acestui text se poate citi aici, în rubrica Ficțiuni Reale. 
